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Soviet Double Agent George Blake Dies at Age 98

Ian Harvey

George Blake passed away at the age of 98 in Russia. Blake is known for being a British agent in the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS)…

Seven Fishermen Blown Out of Water by a UXB

Ian Harvey

A crew of crab fishermen were nearly killed when an explosion expected to be from a WWII bomb lifted their 42-foot vessel, the Galwad-Y-Mor, out…

Only Memorial to Anne Frank in the US Vandalized by Morons

Ian Harvey

The Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial in Boise, Idaho, was vandalized with  swastikas early morning on Tuesday, December 8, 2020. Nine stickers with swastikas and…

US Coast Guard to Send Icebreaker to Arctic for National Security

Ian Harvey

The US Coast Guard’s only long-range icebreaker, the Polar Star, would typically head to the Antarctic to help with the resupply of the McMurdo Station.…

Help Return Churchill III* to Running Order

Help Return Churchill III* to Running Order Help The Tank Museum raise £5,000 to return this British World War Two classic to running order in…

German Shipwreck said to contain Peter The Great’s Amber Room Reveals New Treasures

German shipwreck the Karlsruhe is finally being explored at the bottom of the Baltic Sea. But does it hold the remains of the legendary Amber…

100 year old ‘Flying Tiger’ Harry Moyer Still Flies Every Week

Ian Harvey

If you are a healthy, vibrant World War II veteran pilot, how would you choose to spend your 100th Birthday? Harry Moyer is just such…

Falkland Islands Declared Mine-Free After 10-year Effort, Four Decades After End Of War

Ian Harvey

Compared to the inconveniences that plague the average beachgoer – overcast skies, sand flies, or jellyfish, to name a few – the problems faced by…

President Clears Way to Present Medal of Honor to Alwyn Cashe for His Heroic Actions

Ian Harvey

President Donald Trump has signed a bipartisan bill which clears the way for US Army Sgt Alwyn Cashe to posthumously receive the nation’s highest military…

Researchers Nearly Finished With Excavation of Viking Longship in Norway

Ian Harvey

Archaeologists are excavating a rare Viking longship that has been buried for about twelve hundred years in Norway. It’s the first such excavation in Norway…

How a US Squad Saved Some of the World’s Most Valuable Horses

Ian Harvey

As World War II wound to a close, just days before Adolf Hitler would take his own life in a bunker in Berlin, the 2nd…

US Marine MIA for More Than 70 Years on Tarawa Atoll Returned to Home Town from Pacific Atoll

Ian Harvey

In three days of intense fighting, more than six and a half thousand American, Japanese and Korean soldiers were killed in the Battle of Tarawa.…